The decrease in unemployment to 7.5 percent — the lowest rate in four years — and creation of 164,000 jobs in April was good news everywhere, but you wouldn’t know it by reading CNSNews.com.
A May 3 CNS article by Elizabeth Harrington insisted that “overall unemployment remained largely unchanged in April at 7.5 percent” and did not mention that it was the lowest rate in four years. Instead, the thrust of her article was that the unemployment rate for government workers dropped.
And even that’s a dishonest claim — public-sector jobs have been on a steady decline since 2008.
A separate story by Harrington focused on the claim that there were “33,000 more ‘discouraged workers’ in April ” and made no mention whatsoever of the lowered unemployment rate or jobs created.
Such skewed reporting — which is the sum total of CNS’ take on the unemployment numbers — appears to be part of CNS’ anti-Obama agenda, in which it’s forbidden to say anything positive about the Obama administration, even when there’s positive news to report.